the unsung heroines of sports history

Sunny Graff was
active in political and social causes especially during the Vietnam war.
She joined a group of university women who were concerned about equal
rights for women and started a group called WAR- Women Against Rape. She
spoke openly about rape and women's liberation on The Phil Donahue Show in
April of 1973. She began studying martial arts the following year, falling
in love with the sport, while becoming a lawyer at the same time. After Law
School she worked as a public defender in Columbus Ohio and founded a
prominent rape prevention program through her tae kwon do club for women
that also built up women's self esteem. She left in the mid-eighties and
moved to Germany where she founded "Women on the Move", a clinic
for the self-defense for women.#theunsungheroines